Calvatia sp.

a puffball at Sutton, NSW

Calvatia sp. at Sutton, NSW - 13 Mar 2016
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Identification history

Calvatia sp. 22 Mar 2016 Heino
Calvatia sp. 15 Mar 2016 ArcherCallaway

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3 comments

AaronClausen wrote:
   16 Mar 2016
This thing looks like some kind of evil dirt oyster.
KenT wrote:
   18 Mar 2016
This seems to be one of the purple Calvatia species. I wonder about the location which appears to be in an old farm dam if the google image location is correct, but perhaps the dam had dried out when the Calvatia image was recorded.
   18 Mar 2016
It was just beside a dam (which was at half-capacity), but I don't think it would have been inundated at any stage. Camera GPS must have been a tad off

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  • Calvatia sp. Scientific name
  • a puffball Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 1185m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning
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